Product Description: Can imaginative literature change the political and social history of a class or nation? In The Chartist Imaginary: Literary Form in Working-Class Political Theory and Practice, Margaret Loose turns to the Chartist Movement―Britain’s first mass working-class movement, dating from the 1830s to the 1840s―and argues that, based on literature by members of the movement, the answer to that question is a resounding “yes...read more